Rattling Books Blog

This year has been an active one for Steven Heighton, one of Canada's best novelists, and a well-awarded writer of short fiction and poe...

Drive-by Saviours , Chris Benjamin's 2010 debut novel set in Canada and Indonesia, has just been chosen by CBC's Canada Reads as on...

Mavis Gallant is one of the foremost short story writers of our time. Only S. J. Perelman and John Updike have had more pieces published in ...

Canadian author Emily White's 2010 national best-seller Lonely: A Memoir is described by Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones , as ...

On Wednesday, November 3, Ron Hynes will release his latest CD at the LSPU Hall in St. John's. The songs on Stealing Genius, composed ...

October, 2010 - Andy Jones will perform To The Wall in St. John's, Newfoundland. Thursday, October 21, 2010, LSPU Hall Friday, ...

Halifax-based arts blogger Stephen Pederson takes a look at The Man of a Thousand Songs , a new documentary on legendary Newfoundland singer...

The Man of a Thousand Songs , a documentary about the legendary Newfoundland singer-songwriter Ron Hynes , is reviewed here in Variety . * ...

Kathleen Winter's novel Annabel has been selected for the Giller Prize long-list. To see the complete list of nominees, click here. *...

* * * Michael Winter's novel The Big Why is available as an unabridged audiobook from Rattling Books, in MP3 CD or digitally downloa...

Newfoundland poet and novelist Michael Crummey will be one of three participants in this year's Cabot Trail Writers Festival. Participat...

Traditional Newfoundland singer and storyteller Anita Best will be performing at the Ottawa 2010 Storytellers' Festival in a featured c...

Michael Crummey, author of the acclaimed novel Galore , is interviewed for Booklounge.ca (see episode 63). * * * A collection of Michael...

Novelist and short story writer Lisa Moore talks about her writing process on Tickle Scratch Productions' series Writers' Confession...

Griffin Prize-winning Canadian poet Don McKay will deliver a presentation on Thursday, August 19 as part of the three-day Association of Lit...

Along with collaborators from the St. John's theatre and dance scenes, novelist, playwright and actor Joel Thomas Hynes has adapted a bo...

The deadline for submissions to EarLit Shorts , Rattling Books ' signature audio short fiction anthology series, is on August 15, 2010 ....

Novelist and short story writer Michael Winter talks about his writing process on Tickle Scratch Productions' series Writers' Confes...

Afterimage , Robert Chafe's theatrical adaptation of a story of the same name by poet and novelist Michael Crummey, has been published b...

More on Kathleen Winter 's debut novel, Annabel , this time in The Gazette . * * * Three of Kathleen Winter's short stories appear i...

St. John's writer Russell Wangersky will be one of several notable authors appearing at the Whistler Readers & Writers Festival this...

Newfoundland writer Lisa Moore has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, February , a fictional account of the e...

Poets Danielle Devereaux and James Langer will give a free public reading tonight at The Ship Pub, off Duckworth Street in St. John's, N...

Griffin Prize-winning poet Don McKay has sent Prime Minister Stephen Harper a copy of John Steffler's poetry collection The Grey Island...

Novelist and poet Michael Crummey 's latest novel, Galore , is now available in paperback. See H.J. Kirchhoff's Globe & Mail pr...

Poet and playwright Agnes Walsh's new play, "Come Here Til I Tells Ya," will debut on July 24 at the Cuslett Arts Centre, in C...

Mary Dalton, Jessica Grant and Kevin Major are this year's faculty at Piper's Frith: Writing in Kilmory, an annual writers' work...

Novelist and short story writer Kathleen Winter will be launching her novel, Annabel , on Tuesday, July 20, 8 p.m., at The Ship Pub on Duckw...

Salty Ink points out a link to this video review (from the people at The Keepin' It Real Book Club) of Jessica Grant's novel, Come, ...

Kathleen Winter is interviewed about her new novel, Annabel , on Bookdiscovery, a book blog. Read the interview here. * * * Three of Kat...